Dewey's Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations

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Contents Foreword by Larry Hickman vii Editors’ Introduction xi Part I Situations, Experience, and Knowing 1 1. The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey’s Ecological Theory of Experience 3 Thomas Alexander 2. Logic and Judgments of Practice 27 Jennifer Welchman 3. Experimental Logic: Normative Theory or Natural History? 43 Vincent Colapietro 4. The Logical Reconstruction of Experience: Dewey and Lewis 72 Sandra Rosenthal 5. Dewey and Quine on the Logic of What There Is 93 John Shook Part II Logical Theory and Forms 119 6. Prospects for Mathematizing Dewey’s Logical Theory 121 Tom Burke vi 7. Designation, Characterization, and Theory in Dewey’s Logic 160 Douglas Browning 8. Dewey’s Logical Forms 180 Hans Seigfried 9. The Role of Measurement in Inquiry 202 Jayne Tristan 10. Qualities, Universals, Kinds, and the New Riddle of Induction 225 Tom Burke Part III Values and Social Inquiry 237 11. Achieving Pluralism (Why AIDS Activists Are Different from Creationists) 239 John Capps 12. The Teachers Union Fight and the Scope of Dewey’s Logic 262 Michael Eldridge 13. Power/Inquiry: The Logic of Pragmatism 275 John Stuhr About the Authors 287 Name Index 291 Subject Index 293 ...